How Would You Use All That Money

With the Kentucky mega million lotteries reaching its all-time high in the last month it has made me start thinking a lot about this country’s priorities.   While I am sure that we all know someone who is wasting money on some frivolous object that we can’t understand, I have seen what the consequence of frivolous money spending can be. <br />At some point in my career, I cared for a patient who had lost a lot of money.  The patient had a lot of exciting stories of their life and the many things they were able to do.  However, when they came to the hospital, they had nothing.  There was not a home, car, and only one pair of clothes to this patient’s name.  As I was talking to this patient, I learned all about the things you can do with millions of dollars.  You can buy a multi-million dollar house in a gated community.  However if you don’t pay your dues to that community you may lose that house…all because you didn’t pay $150,000 of dues (this may seem like a lot of money to us, but for this patient it was just pocket change at the time).  You may also buy all the fast sports cars you want.  I do believe that at one time this patient had 10 different sport cars…now please tell me why you need 10 when last time I checked you can still only drive one at a time.  Oh but the most important thing you can do with that money…is of course buy DRUGS!!!!  And have a great time at all the crazy wild parties you want.  <br />Eventually it was the drugs, which claimed all the money of this patient and left the patient with nothing.  This patient went from a normal everyday life, to one day waking up and having everything they could possibly think of.  I can’t even imagine what that would be like…although believe me it would be a great thing to figure out what it would be like.   I felt bad for this patient because they had their whole life settled and made for them and then all because of a few bad choices they were even worse off than they had been before they won the money.